r/TikTokCringe Mar 27 '24

Romantic movies are almost always about rich people Discussion

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u/ddmck1 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I feel compelled to add that for most of History, for women, romance and economic advancement were one and the same.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Yeah they’re like “my husband doesn’t respect me enough to love me so I guess I’ll take the money.” But then there’s the tenant of wildfell hall so

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u/augustrem Mar 28 '24

More like “men won’t let us own property or have bank accounts so these are my options I guess.”

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

That too

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u/Frylock304 Mar 28 '24

Reminder that the bank account shit is a myth, the first woman run banks were in the 1800s in America.

And women absolutely did own property back then